Closing Date: September
19, 2014
The Centre for Creative Arts (University of KZN) calls
students to submit poems as part of the 18th Poetry Africa Schools Competition.
The Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal),
with principal funding from the City of Durban and the KwaZulu-Natal Department
of Arts and Culture, calls out to students to submit poems as part of the 18th Poetry
Africa Schools Competition.
With its longstanding commitment towards nurturing a culture
of reading and writing poetry amongst the youth, Poetry Africa invites primary
and high school learners to take up the exciting opportunity of in the
festival’s School Poetry Competition. There is no particular topic for the
poems and they can be written in English, Zulu or Afrikaans. Submission must be
no more than two poems per learner, with a maximum length of one A4 page per
poem - illegible entries will not be considered.
Poems must either be submitted by hand to the Centre for
Creative Arts (Howard College Campus, UKZN), by email to poetryafrica@cca-ukzn.co.za or by
fax to 031 260 3074 by September 19, 2014.
Poetry Africa Festival takes place from October 13 to 18, 2014.
Winners will read their poems on the main stage of the
Poetry Africa festival on the evening of October 17. Prizes will be awarded by
Adams Booksellers and the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN).
For more details about this year’s Poetry Africa, visit www.cca.ukzn.ac.za or call 031 260 2506.
Organised by the
Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), the 18th Poetry Africa
is funded by the City of Durban and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts and
Culture, Goethe Institut and the French Insitute of South Africa. The Centre
for Creative Arts is housed in the College of Humanities at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal and is a special project of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Cheryl Potgieter.
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